In this hospital, surgery people doing resuscitation is a cold joke. Bunch of doctors there, a balloon ambulatory device was attached to the patient, but they did 15 chest compressions (counting out loud 1!2!3!4!...15!) followed by 2 times squeezing the amb balloon (still counting 1!2!), over and over. They seemed to forget that they're a team of residents provided with equipment in a hospital; not a one-on-one resuscitation in a deserted island. You've got the balloon to help his breathing, so keep pumping and give him continuous oxygenation, please! Not cool, guys..
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I've looked under my blanket
I've searched all over the closet
Maybe around the refrigerator
Or perhaps somewhere near the radiator
Where have my smile gone?
Ah right, I then realized,
When you went away,
with you, you took it away.
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Where did I counted wrong??
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Damn! It ruins almost everything. Urgh! Not liking this!
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And today is such. He's on duty in the ER :)
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The image I got in med school classes a couple of years ago about Anaesthesiology vs Surgery departments is of how arrogant the first one was. They "bragged" about how they keep things alive and how they always arrived first at the operating room and departed last. And clearly they showed some level of annoyance to the Surgery people. I used to hate that kind of arrogance. Very much! Well as usual I always turned back from my own words. When you've really gotten into the field and witness everything before your eyes, reality is sometimes what they really talked about. That is not arrogance. A surgeon, with all respect to their operating techniques and their robotic legs' ability to stand all the way through the operation, is only concentrating to slash--i mean, to operate on patient. Maintaining the vital sign and live-saving is all credit to the anaesthesiologist. A surgeon can bleed the patient out loud, and guess who's the one to fix all that. No wonder they never show their dislike to the anesthesia people openly. You can't cut a person's body open without preparations. It's not just a matter of painkillers.
I have new respect to people in Anaesthesiology department. Most of them work calmly yet very effectively; I love to see them work, especially as a team when there's emergency. Yup, I officially miss being an Anaesthesiology co-assistant. I'm writing this triggered by an incident this morning in Surgery dept meeting that involves some bad talks directed to the Anaesthesiology dept. Surgery dept sucks like the Emergency Room's suction.
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